Seth MacFarlane Slams Boston Bombings 'Family Guy' Conspiracy Theory

"Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane took to Twitter on Tuesday
to condemn an edited clip that suggests Fox's animated comedy
predicted Monday's Boston Marathon bombings a month before they
occurred.

"The edited 'Family Guy' clip currently circulating is abhorrent.
The event was a crime and a tragedy, and my thoughts are with the
victims," MacFarlane fumed on Twitter.

The creator was responding to an edited video that has sparked
one of the more bizarre conspiracy theories since the Beantown
bombings.

One version of the edited clip fuses two scenes from the March 17
"Family Guy" episode, "Turban Cowboy." The first portion of the
clip depicts "Family Guy" patriarch Peter Griffin, preparing to
tell Bob Costas how he won the Boston marathon.

The edited clip then shows Griffin and friends at local boozery,
the Drunken Clam. After Griffin dials his cell phone, an
explosion occurs off-camera. He re-dials, at which point a second
explosion occurs, followed by screaming.

The edited Family Guy clip currently circulating is abhorrent.
The event was a crime and a tragedy, and my thoughts are with
the victims.

In the actual, unedited episode, Griffin tells Costas that he won
the marathon by completing it with his car, with a cutaway to him
plowing through the racers. The explosion scene ties back to the
main plot of the episode, in which he inadvertently befriends a
group of terrorists intent on blowing up a bridge in the "Family
Guy" setting of Quahog, Rhode Island.

Poor taste right in line with the "Family Guy" tradition? Yes. A
prediction of the Boston marathon bombings? Not even close —
unless you squint really hard and are already prone to paranoid
delusions.

"The image of Peter killing the Boston Marathon runners even
shows blood and missing limbs, a chilling reminder of the very
real scenes of carnage we saw yesterday," wrote Infowars
editor/writer Paul Joseph Watson.

To his (partial) credit, Watson noted, "It is important to note
that the video shows two clips from different points of the show
edited together, but they are from the same episode."

The video embedded in the Infowars story has been removed due to
"a violation of YouTube's
policy against spam, scams, and commercially deceptive content."
Watson's description sounds identical to the video below, also
posted on YouTube:

This isn't the only conspiracy theory to develop following
Monday's deadly attacks. A photo of a man standing on a roof
sparked a frenzy of Twitter speculation Tuesday, which was
reported on by such outlets as the New
York Daily News and ABC News.